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A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations - Us and Them Beyond Orientalism (Paperback)
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A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations - Us and Them Beyond Orientalism (Paperback)
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This book seeks to dispel the myth that we have ever been embroiled
in some "clash of civilisations." Adib-Moghaddam traverses various
intellectual disciplines in order to find a pathway through the
conceptual maze that has habituated us to think in "tribal"
categories. Accompanying the reader on this journey from the wars
between ancient Persia and Greece, the Crusades, Colonialism and
the Enlightenment to the contemporary "wars on terror" are thinkers
from "East" and "West": Adorno, Derrida, Farabi, Foucault, Hegel,
Khayyam, Marcuse, Marx, Said, Ibn Sina, Weber. In asking where
ideas such as the "clash of civilisations" come from, and by whom
they are perpetuated, Adib-Moghaddam engages with both western and
Islamic representations of the "other." He demonstrates a) the
discontinuities between 'Islamism' and the canon of classical
Islamic philosophy distinguishing between "Avicennian" and
"Qutbian" discourses of Islam, and b) how the violence inscribed in
the idea of the "West," especially during the period of the
Enlightenment, continues to cast a shadow on world politics today.
Expanding the geography of critical theory to include the canons of
Islamic philosophy and poetry, A Metahistory of the Cash of
Civilisations refuses to divorce Muslims from Europeans, Americans
from Arabs, the Orient from the Occident. As such, it presents a
frontal attack on our current cultural reality and Islamist-Western
agitation against each other.
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